It's just a lack of torque, it's not the clutches fault really you just don't
have enough power to just let it out and drive away...Nothing really a hundred
or so more inches wouldn't fix.. :>)
Dave
Keith Turk wrote:
>
> Yeah pretty much.... 2.86 rear gear with a 28" tall tire.... something has
> to give coming off the line....
>
> The Push bar at this level seems to be nessesary.... I am going to check out
> the new 3.28 first gear and see what that does for the launch... should help
> a bit.... but even with that were going to have to push it off... just no
> sense in fouling the plugs and killing clutches .....
>
> Keith
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ardunbill@webtv.net>
> To: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 7:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Tilton Clutch stuff
>
> > Keith, I assume you mean the clutch was destroyed by slipping it hard
> > with a lot of power to get off the line with a fairly high bottom gear
> > with your 200 mph gearing? Bill
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